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BARREL.

No. 322,910. `Paz-ented July 28, 1885.

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JAMES COSGROVE, OF FLATBUSH, NEI/V YORK.

. BARREL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 322,910, dated July'28, 1885.

Application filed September 22, 1884. (No model.)

To all vwhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J .inns Cose Rovn, a citizen of the United States,residing at Flatbush, in the county of Kings and State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Paper Barrels, of whichthe following is a description.

Figure l is a plan view of the partly-formed blank. Fig. 2 is a planview of the complete blank. Fig. 3 is a side view of my improved paperbarrel, partly in section. Fig. 4 is an enlarged longitudinal section ofone end of the barrel. Fig. 5 is a top view of one of the heads; andFig. 6 is a side and cross section of one of the hoop strips.

My invention is designed to produce a light, strong, and serviceablebarrel; and to this end it consists in the peculiar construction andarrangement of a barrel made mainly of paper, as hereinafter fullydescribed.

In the drawings, A represents a blank sheet of stiff paper or strawboard, on whose face are laid strips of veneer B B at the edges, B inthe middle, and B2 B2 at points representing about one-third the lengthof the barrel. These strips are secured by glue, and a coat of glue isthen placed over the entire surface, and another sheet of paper or strawboard is laid upon the same, and the whole pressed together by rollsadapted to conform to the increased thickness of the portions of theblanks where the strips are incorporated. One or more very narrow stripsof pasteboard, p, are inserted on top of the thin strip of wood betweeneach layer of paper-board or straw-board on the lines ou which the twoend bands are formed. Vhen these end strips are pressed out into bands,a rim will be formed by the pasteboard projecting beyond the surface ofeach of the end bands just below the croze, and forming a shoulder forthe edge of the head to rest upon. I drive a few nails through the bandsand clinch on the other side. Then in the edges of these blanks I cutthe triangular incisions a, as in Fig. 2, which reach to the strips B2,or about one-third the length of the barrel that is to be formed. rlhesestrips B2 thus strengthen and re-enforce the slits against tearing orsplitting. The re-enforced edges B give greater strength to the ends ofthe barrel, and the strip B forms a central zone or girdle of strengthto the middle of the barrel. The blank as thus formed is rolled up, itsedges O C united by any suitable means, and its slitted ends are thendrawn together to form the taper of the barrel, and hoops placed overthe ends.

In rolling the sheets of pasteboard together to form the blank, a dentor croze, a, is formed by the roller in the thickened edge B of theblank to hold the heads .of the barrel. The heads H also are made of oneor more layers of straw-board or paper-board. One or more rims, r, ofvery thin wood in layers, may be used for each head,.nserted between alayer of the paper-board or strawboard which forms the head. These rims,which have awidth of two or three inches from the edge of the head allaround,are designed to strengthen the edge of the head when entering thecroze. The said material for the heads is first run through a pair ofrollers to shape the heads. They are then cut with a movable knife orknives.

The heads may be strengthened by one or more cross-bars of wood fastenedto them on either the inside or outside by nailing and clinching thenails on the opposite side. I drive a few nails around the edge of thehead and clinch on the other side. The hoops also are made of one ormorelayers of paper-board or straw-board. One or more very thin layersof wood are used for each hoop, inserted between layers of thepaper-board or strawboard which form the hoop.

In making the hoops D, I out them from a compound blank made up ofalternate layers of paper and veneer, glued together. After the hoopsare cut they are passed through a pair of rollers, which will shapethem. By passing the hoop through these' rollers the upper edge of thehoop will be made thick and the lower edge thinner, to t the splay ofthe barrel. I drive a few nails through the hoops and clinch on theother side.

Instead of using only two thicknesses of paper, and intermediate stripsof veneer B B B2, I may use a greater number of sheets of paper and agreater number of alternating strips of veneer, according to thestoutness of the. barrel. I may also employ a greater or less number ofre-enforcing strips around the y barrel.

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I am aware that it is not new to form abarrel of paper, and that abarrel has also been made of a blank whose sides were cut with goredincisions, and I make no broad claim to these features; but

What I claim is- 1. A barrel-blank formed of paper with two or morere`enforcing strips of veneer incorporated in the same transversely tothe barrel, substantially as described.

2. Abarrel-blank formed of paper with reenforcing strips B2, and lateraltriangular incisions extending to the said strips, as and for thepurpose described.

8. A barrel-blank formed of paper with reenforcing strips B B BZ, andhaving lateral in cisions, as and for the purpose described.

JAMES COSGROVE.

Vitnesses:

JAMES T. GRAHAM, EDGAR TATE.

